The tornadoes left 137 dead and 1,000 injured. By JIM BUSCH For the MVI Eighty years ago tomorrow, the headlines in the Valley Independent and other local newspapers were mostly about the progress of ...

Experts say their argument is based on a misunderstanding of how elections work. By ANGELA COULOUMBIS Spotlight PA and CARTER WALKER Votebeat A far-right group is asking a judge to order Pennsylvania ...

Several students were also honored at the board meeting earlier this week. By JIM BUSCH For the MVI South Allegheny school board approved a new budget this week for the 2024-25 school year. The budget...

To the Editor: When we see Trump’s statements, we should ask which candidate is senile? Here are examples: 1. If I lose this election, there will be a bloodbath. 2. When I am elected, I will immediate...

Conventional wisdom suggests that the Supreme Court, like the country, is deeply divided along partisan and ideological lines. But this overlooks the court’s historic recent run of unanimous decisions...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden begins an intense period of private preparations Friday at Camp David for what may be the most consequential presidential debate in decades. The 81-year-old Democra...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the general election nears, Democrats are keen to remind union voters in Pennsylvania that pensions for many workers have been preserved as part of a coronavirus pandemic-era aid ...

The bell used to hang from the school building, but it had been in Georgia for several decades. A piece of Fayette City history returned home Thursday. A bell that once hung from the Fayette City scho...

The organization’s Monessen store has been in business for 25 years. When Richard Lenio’s pastor at St. Sebastian Catholic Church in Belle Vernon asked him to form a St. Vincent de Paul Society more t...

The 7-0 vote came after she refused to shake a student’s hand during graduation ceremonies. Charleroi Area school board directors voted Thursday to censure their colleague Adele Hopkins for her action...

It will be held once a month throughout the summer at Renziehausen Park. By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com There was a party-like atmosphere in McKeesport Thursday as Renzie Market held its grand ...

By JIM BUSCH For the MVI A lot of what I know about the natural world I learned from my grandfather. He was an old-time Pennsylvania woodsman who knew everything there was to know about the plants and...

Director and founder Jason Togyer places a strong emphasis on local content. By COLETTE FUNCHES McKeesport Community Newsroom Tube City Online Radio, also known as WMCK Radio, is housed in a far corne...

Donald Trump often brags to supporters that he has neutralized the abortion issue by insisting that the states are now in charge of policy, not the federal government. But he’s wrong, and he knows it....

As far as I’m concerned, they can’t put warning labels on social media websites soon enough. Indeed, I’d go a lot further. I’d consider banning smartphones altogether for children under 16. Me, I’m so...

AS PENN STATE CUTS staffing at its 20 Commonwealth campuses and at least two private colleges in our region sink into financial distress, the people who run those institutions point to shrinking enrol...

As a young girl, Maria Kitay visited the hospital when her cousin, Clara Carbone Caputo, had breast cancer. “She put her back up against the wall, and she said, ‘It’s so painful to have this,’” Kitay ...

Chris Vaccaro was on his couch watching Tuesday’s storm when lighting struck his Monessen home and sent him flying to the floor. Vaccaro said he and his wife, Megan, and their cat, Willie, were in dif...

It honors those who lost their lives in the Global War on Terror. The VAU Fallen Heroes Memorial will be displayed in Roscoe this weekend. Roscoe American Legion Post 801 has worked for months to brin...

The new spending plan passed unanimously. By MICHAEL RICHTER mrichter@yourmvi.com Ringgold School Board adopted a $56 million budget for the 2024-25 school year Wednesday that includes a tax hike for ...